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joshua
/ˈd͡ʒɑʃ(j)u.ə/
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What does joshua mean?
noun
- A Joshua tree.
proper noun
- The sixth book of the Old Testament of the Bible, and a book of the Tanakh.
- The son of Nun, Judge of Israel following Moses; author of the Book of Joshua; Quranic figure.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- A surname, transferred from the given name
- A city in Johnson County, Texas, United States, named after the biblical Joshua.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈd͡ʒɑʃ(j)u.ə/
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I would take their opinion on a question of art, in preference to the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg.
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No marvel then though some men, and some good men too perhaps, but young in goodness, as Joshua then was, envy them.
Sir Joshua Reynolds, when a boy, forgot his lessons, and took pleasure only in drawing, for which his father was accustomed to rebuke him.
Caleb and Joshua were only two in six hundred thousand but they alone of this great multitude lived to see and inherit the promised land.